House cleaners find two of the first desktop PCs in random boxes
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House cleaners find two of the first desktop PCs in random boxes
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#2Random dragons hoarding gold seems to be once again the best failsafe for preserving humanity's accomplishments, said no one ever.
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#4Would have been nice to see more than one vague photo of the actual units.
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#5Random dragons hoarding gold seems to be once again the best failsafe for preserving humanity's accomplishments, said no one ever.
Seems to be how these were preserved thus far.
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#6This might be the first Intel desktop PC, but it's not the first desktop computer. That would be the HP9100A from 1968.
I agree more pictures would have been nice. It looks like a cool piece of hardware!
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#7Some more close-ups of the Q1 etc in this video and pics they've posted (all I could find):
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#8Some more close-ups of the Q1 etc in this video and pics they've posted (all I could find): https://twitter.com/KingstonUni/status/1757444509577662951 https://twitter.com/KingstonUni/status/1757404905176695186
Could you kindly rehost those on imgur for people that don't want to play in walled gardens?
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#9That this 8008 computer from 1972 should have 16KB of RAM sounds unlikely. I haven't been able to find any real info stating this - still, the headline on tomshardware says "16KB". That's very hard to believe. Static RAM of that size would have been extremely expensive at the time, the much much later Altair 8800 didn't get past 4KB without a dynamic RAM board (which was also very unreliable).
The Q1/Lite, a Z80-based computer from 1974 (correction - 1977!) - well, that I can kind of believe.
I wonder if the article author is confusing the theoretical max memory address space of the 8008 (which is 16KB) with actual RAM size of the 1972 model Q1?
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#10I worked for Daniel Alroy the founder of Q1. https://www.peel.dk/Q1/
I have never seen one in real life yet. He told me lot of stories, especially how he got into a fight with Intel. He had set out to prove a point that a cheaper simpler machine can be made.